10 Things I Hate About You quotes

View Quote Cameron: Wow, is this what a bar looks like?
Michael: [Cameron reaches into a jar on the bar] Don't touch anything! You may get hepatitis.
Patrick: So, what have ya got for me?
Michael: A little insight into a very complicated girl....Uhh, excuse me, just one question before we start. Should you be drinking alcohol when you don't have a liver?
Michael: [Cameron and Patrick look confused] Nevermind.
Cameron: All right, first thing, Kat hates smokers.
Patrick: So you're telling me I'm a... non-smoker.
Michael: Yes... well, just for now.
Cameron: And, umm, here's another problem. Bianca said that Kat likes... pretty guys.
Patrick: Are you telling me I'm not a pretty guy?
Michael: H--... he's very pretty. He's a gorgeous guy.
Cameron: Yeah... I... I... just wasn't sure.
Cameron: All right, here's this... Likes Thai food, feminist prose and angry girl music of the indie rock persuasion. Here's a list of CDs she has in her room...
Patrick: So, I'm supposed to buy her some noodles and a book and sit around listening to chicks who can't play their instruments, right?
Michael: Have you ever been to Club Skunk?
Cameron: Her favorite band's playing there tomorrow night.
Patrick: I can't be seen at Club Skunk. All right?
Cameron: But she'll be there, she's got tickets.
Michael: Just assail your ears for one night.
Cameron: She has a pair of black underwear... If that helps.
Michael: [laughing cooly] Couldn't hurt, right?

View Quote Joey: [holding up headshots] Which one do you like better?
Bianca: Hmm, I think I like the white shirt better.
Joey: Yeah, it's more...
Bianca: Pensive?
Joey: Damn, I was going for thoughtful.

View Quote Patrick: So what's your excuse?
Kat: For?
Patrick: Acting the way we do.
Kat: I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to other people's expectations instead of my own?
Patrick: So you disappoint them from the start and then you're covered, right?
Kat: Something like that...
Patrick: Then you screwed up.
Kat: How?
Patrick: You never disappointed me.

View Quote Kat: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know.
Patrick: Yeah I know. But then you know there's always drums, and bass, and maybe even one day a tambourine.

View Quote Patrick: Well maybe you're not afraid of me but I'm sure you've thought about me naked.
Kat: [sarcastically] Am I that transparent? I want you, I need' you, oh baby, oh baby.

View Quote Bianca Stratford: What planet did you come from? Planet Loser?
Kat Stratford: As opposed to Planet Look-at-Me, Look-at-Me?
Walter Stratford: (claps) Ok, here's how we solve this one: Old rule out, new rule: Bianca can date...when she does (points at Kat)
Bianca Stratford: But she´s a mutant! What if she never dates?!
Walter Stratford: Then you'll never date...Oh I like that! And I'll get to sleep at night, the deep slumber of a father whose daughters aren't out being impregnated
Walter Stratford: (his beeper sounds) We'll continue this conversation later

View Quote Cameron: So far she's not going for my guy. She's not a -
Bianca: K.D. Lang fan? No. I found a picture of Jared Leto in her drawer once, so I'm pretty sure she's not harboring same sex tendencies.

View Quote Cameron: We are screwed
Michael: Hey, I don't want to hear that defeatist attitude. I want to hear you upbeat.
Cameron: [Cheerfully] We're screwed!
Michael: There you go

View Quote Romantic? Hemingway? He was an abusive alcoholic and misogynist who squandered half of his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers.

View Quote Mr. Morgan: I know how difficult it must be to overcome all those years of upper middle-class suburban oppression. Must be tough. But the next time you storm the PTA crusading for better... lunch meat, or whatever you white girls complain about, ask them WHY they can't buy a book written by a black man!
White Rastas: That's right mon!
Mr. Morgan: Don't even get me started on you two!
White Rastas: No problem mon!

View Quote Ms. Perky: Patrick Verona. I see we're making our visits a weekly ritual.
Patrick: Only so we can have these moments together. Should I, uh, hit the lights?
Ms. Perky: Oh, very clever, kangaroo boy. Says here you exposed yourself in the cafeteria?
Patrick: I was joking with the lunch lady. It was a bratwurst.
Ms. Perky: Bratwurst? Aren't we the optimist? Next time, keep it in your pouch, okay? Now scoot!

View Quote Chastity: I know you can be overwhelmed and you can be underwhelmed. But can you ever just be whelmed?
Bianca: I think you can in Europe.

View Quote Mr. Morgan: [after reading a Shakespearean sonnet] Now. I know Shakespeare's a dead white guy, but he knows his shit, so we can overlook that. I want you all to write your own version of this sonnet. [Kat raises her hand in the background] Yes, Ms. "I Have An Opinion About Everything?"

View Quote 'Cause he was like- such a babe.

View Quote Ms. Perky: So, I hear you've been terrorizing Mr. Morgan's class... again.
Kat: Expressing my opinion is not a terrorist action.
Ms. Perky: The way you expressed your opinion to Bobby Ridgeway? By the way, his testicle retrieval operation went quite well, in case you're interested.
Kat: I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.